2 – After a Disaster

101 Best Websites: Develop Your Digital Archive

Allison Dolan, publisher of Family Tree Magazine shares some of the sites and tools from the
101 Best Websites list that factor into your genealogy “preparedness plan.”

• Flickr: Share/store digital copies of photos. You can set up an account that other
members of your family can access/add to so that there are multiple copies of
everyone’s favorite pictures.
• Evernote: Create and keep copies of your notes in the cloud.
• BackupMyTree: Automatically backup your genealogy software files.
• Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, TribalPages: Hosting an online tree is a way to ensure your data isn’t entirely lost in a computer failure or natural disaster.

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Family Tree University: Genealogy Estate Planning

When you pass on to the great beyond, who will inherit your hordes of hard-found genealogy research? In this segment, Online Editor Tyler Moss discusses how you can plan the prolonged preservation of your genealogy research, long after you’re gone.